Archive for Ralph R. Reiland
Regulators: The New Socialists
Ralph Reiland, a scholar associated with the Commonwealth Foundation in Harrisburg, Pa., is an associate professor of economics at Robert Morris College and owner of Amel’s Restaurant in Pittsburgh. Socialism in the traditional sense—government ownership of the means of production and state control of jobs and incomes—is dead. From Leningrad to Managua, those who thought [...]
1Feb1998 | Ralph R. Reiland | 0 comments | ContinuedDying for a Pizza
Mr. Reiland is associate professor of economics at Robert Morris College in Pittsburgh. It started as more than 50 people were being killed in Los Angeles by rioters who didn’t agree with the verdict in the Rodney King case. That same night, while the rest of us were watching the mayhem on television, Carl Truss [...]
1Mar1997 | Ralph R. Reiland | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Incredible Regulatory Follies
Mr. Reiland is associate professor of economics at Robert Morris College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In a recent Times-Mirror poll, 69 percent of Americans said that government “controls too much of our daily lives.” Seemingly not satisfied that they have alienated the bulk of the adult population, the central planners and bureaucrats are now going after [...]
1Aug1996 | Ralph R. Reiland | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Big Apple: Cigarettes and Central Planners
Ralph Reiland, Associate Professor of Economics at Robert Morris College, owns Amel’s Restaurant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “People should be free to settle things on their own,” Jimmy Duke tells a New York Times reporter. Duke owns Drake’s Drum, a restaurant on Second Avenue at 90th Street in New York City. What has Mr. Duke talking [...]
1Oct1995 | Ralph R. Reiland | 0 comments | ContinuedCrime and Race
Professor Reiland teaches economics at Robert Morris College and has been published in National Minority Politics, Barron’s, and USA Today. The tragic murder last year of Polly Klaas, a suburban white child forcibly taken from her bedroom by a career criminal, created a national uproar. Her accused assailant, Richard Allen Davis, had been released from [...]
1Aug1995 | Ralph R. Reiland | 1 comment | ContinuedEconomics 101: A True-False Test
Professor Reiland, associate professor of economics at Robert Morris College, owns Amel’s Restaurant in Pittsburgh. Here’s a quiz. Which of the following statements about the American economy during the 1980s are true? 1. From 1982 to 1989, 19 million net new jobs were created in the United States (more than the number of jobs created [...]
1Jul1995 | Ralph R. Reiland | 3 comments | ContinuedRolling Back the Imperial Congress
Ralph R. Reiland is Associate Professor of Economics at Robert Morris College and coowner of Amel’s Restaurant in Pittsburgh. A top priority in the new Congress was to approve legislation that requires members of Congress to obey the same laws that they pass for the rest of us. No longer will the private sector be [...]
1May1995 | Ralph R. Reiland | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Prejudice Against Midnight Dishwashing
Ralph R. Reiland is an Associate Professor of Economics at Robert Morris College and owns Amel’s Restaurant in Pittsburgh. Child Labor Regulation No. 3 mandates that 14- and 15-year-old kids can’t work more than three hours on school nights. As a restaurant owner I can be fined up to $10,000 per incident if a 15-year-old [...]
1Apr1995 | Ralph R. Reiland | 0 comments | ContinuedEnding the Crayfish Syndrome
Mr. Reiland, Associate Professor of Economics at Robert Morris College, owns Amel’s Restaurant in Pittsburgh and has been published in USA Today, Barron’s, and Minorities & Women in Business. What are the chances for upward mobility for a group of poor, black church people 96 percent on welfare—in rural Mississippi, the poorest state in the [...]
1Feb1995 | Ralph R. Reiland | 1 comment | ContinuedZsa Zsa and the Litigation Explosion
Mr. Reiland teaches economics at Robert Morris College in Pittsburgh, and is the owner of Amel’s Restaurant in the same city. This time it’s big trouble for Zsa Zsa Gabor, worse than when she slapped the Hollywood cop and was sentenced to work at the women’s shelter. Now, for a verbal faux pas, a California [...]
1Oct1994 | Ralph R. Reiland | 0 comments | ContinuedCapitalism: an Alternative For Inner-city Gangs
Ralph R. Reiland is a Pittsburgh restaurateur and an Assistant Professor of Economics at Robert Morris College. He has been published in Barron’s, USA Today, and Minorities and Women in Business. The much-publicized gang peace summit in Kansas City last summer produced some good ideas. The Crips and the Bloods are right that voting is [...]
1Mar1994 | Ralph R. Reiland | 0 comments | Continued-
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